قپاق

Ottoman Turkish
قپاق

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kapgak (“cover”); cognate with Azerbaijani qapaq, Bashkir ҡапҡас (qapqas), Kyrgyz капкак (kapkak), Southern Altai какпак (kakpak), Turkmen gapak, Uyghur قاپقاق‎ (qapqaq) and Uzbek qopqoq.

Noun

قپاق • (kapak)

  1. lid, the top or cover of a container
    Synonyms: پوشنده‎ (puşende), طبق‎ (tabak)
  2. stopper, bung, cork used to prevent fluids from passing
  3. outside layer of a bale of any damageable commodity
  4. (by extension) outside layer of any goods, when sold apart

Derived terms
  • دیز قپاغی‎ (diz kapağı, “kneecap”)
  • قپاق سواریسی‎ (kapak süvarisi, “post-captain in the navy”)
  • قپاق طاشی‎ (kapak taşı, “flat stone used as a cover”)
  • قپاقسز‎ (kapaksız, “without a lid or cover”)
  • قپاقلو‎ (kapaklı, “furnished with a lid or cover”)
  • گوز قپاغی‎ (göz kapağı, “eyelid”)
  • یݣ قپاغی‎ (yeñ kapağı, “cuff of a sleeve”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kapak
    • → Northern Kurdish: qepax, qapax
  • → Albanian: kapak
  • → Armenian: ղափաղ (łapʿał), խափախ (xapʿax), կափաղ (kapʿał)
  • → Bulgarian: капак (kapak)
  • → Greek: καπάκι (kapáki)
  • → Macedonian: капак (kapak)
  • → Romanian: capac
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: капак
    Latin: kapak

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